United States v. Smith

ORDER

After police officers pulled over Maurice Smith for allegedly faffing to display a front license plate on his car, they learned that Smith was driving without a license and arrested him. A search incident to the arrest revealed that Smith, a convicted felon, was carrying a 9mm semi-automatic pistol. Smith moved to suppress the gun and his post-arrest confession, but the district court denied his motion. Smith then entered a conditional guilty plea to one count of possession of a firearm by a felon, see 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1), reserving in his plea agreement the right to challenge the…